TIL that Ted Knight was the narrator of the Superfriends for its first season and I don't know what to do with that information other than come back here with it.
10.09.2025 04:22 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@jbrecht.bsky.social
general purpose nerd - physics, tech, board games. also art, education, DJing, hippety hop, D&D
TIL that Ted Knight was the narrator of the Superfriends for its first season and I don't know what to do with that information other than come back here with it.
10.09.2025 04:22 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I wondered when the rocket launch countdown (10, 9, 8...) first entered into popular culture. Apparently it was all the way back in 1929, in Fritz Lang's "Frau im Mond". Amazing seeing everything we associate with 60s moonshots imagined depicted back in the 20s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFGA...
24.04.2025 18:29 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0remember when Superman stopped General Zod's angry buddy by throwing a giant Shrinky Dink at him? kids today don't know what good superhero movies are.
23.02.2025 00:29 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A massive corporation claiming a major advancement in fundamental physics ahead of publicly funded science is exactly what I had on my Terrifying Dystopian Future Bingo Card - azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/q...
19.02.2025 19:19 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0there's no faster way to get my girlfriend to say what she really thinks about me than busting out my falsetto. she'll be innocently enjoying a cup of sunday morning coffee and here comes my rendition of What a Fool Believes to ruin everything.
07.02.2025 01:33 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0So this is what Ed Martin had in mind when he threatened to sick the Justice Dept on anyone who dares to investigate Doge?
06.02.2025 22:36 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0So as his first assignment, a FoxNews host and former Major in the reserves, who at best oversaw a budget of about $100k, has 60 days to design Star Wars 2.0
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
nice explanation video on the sodium cooled reactor project happening in Wyoming www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixSC...
26.01.2025 23:35 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Auf der Tesla Gigafactory in Berlin steht: โHeil Tesla!โ
Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin - right now!
In cooperation with @ledbydonkeys.org
Are you seriously trying to All Lives Matter this?
08.01.2025 23:47 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0gen-xers stampeding to the thread to say it was their thing first
07.01.2025 21:50 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0things can only get brighter from here. until they start getting darker in 6 months.
21.12.2024 19:43 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I have been messing with Gemini Deep Research today and it is banana times. You prompt it with a research task, it replies with an outline of a research plan. Then it finds and analyzes dozens of web sites, papers, news articles, and videos. Then generates a paper with citations on that topic.
15.12.2024 21:26 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Republican Governor Larry Hogan posted video of the constellation Orion and claimed the stars were โlarge dronesโ above his home.
Just a reminder that Republicans want to shut down the Department of Education.
move the Skynet Doomsday Clock another minute closer to midnight: www.defenseone.com/business/202...
05.12.2024 00:04 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0everything is terrible, but in the past 12 months:
* first net energy production from a fusion reaction
* quantum computing outpaces supercomputers
* AI starting to become ubiquitous and AGI feels more just-around-the-corner than ever
* and now room temperature superconductors may be a thing?
seeing Oppenheimer is hard https://www.instagram.com/reel/CuVWr8gLcDY/
13.07.2023 18:15 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Yayoi coming to the Yay next fall - https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/yayoi-kusama-infinite-love/
13.07.2023 18:13 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0NASA is marking the first anniversary of the James Webb Space Telescopeโs scientific debut with the release of a new image, demonstrating the telescopeโs ability to re-envision the universe.
๐ See more discoveries from the telescope: https://wapo.st/3XQTIWc
whoa, MTG voted not dumb enough to be in the House Freedom Caucus, by the House Freedom Caucus https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/06/marjorie-taylor-greene-booted-out-of-freedom-caucus-member-says-00104997
07.07.2023 00:30 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0this work is staggering, we now have a way of measuring distortions in spacetime (gravitational waves) from some of the most massive objects in existence and from the very early years of the universe - https://www.space.com/gravitational-wave-background-universe-1st-detection
29.06.2023 18:29 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0if you're ever inclined to leave home for a while and see other things you're a big dumb naive jerk and you should feel bad. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-case-against-travel
28.06.2023 21:29 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I came out of art retirement and helped build this lovely beast. deploying this weekend...
28.06.2023 16:38 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I need to buy a microwave because I just read how a microwave with rust spots can be dangerous. this would have been good to know about two years ago.
anyway, I've learned that you can get a microwave that... looks cool? isn't just a black and chrome box? when did that start?
the way this just happened with no plan whatsoever - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIW7xZSlZoM
23.06.2023 20:51 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I'd like to think of Free Willy as the prequel to this
22.06.2023 23:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0So... anything happening in the ocean lately? Any aquatic events I should be aware of? Seems an age since I've heard anything about the sea or things that may be under it.
22.06.2023 21:49 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Oh hi I'm new here. I'll kick things off with this photo of a squirrel on my porch who was feeling indignant about me taking away the bird seed he was plundering.
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